Maritime History of the Great Lakes

Scanner, v. 36, no. 9 (Mid-Summer 2004), p. 12

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GREAT LAKE MEMORIES 12. T h e N i a g a r a - T o r o n t o R o u t e Niagara Navigation Co. C O N N E C T I N G Limited Buffalo - Niagara Falls - Toronto T H E N iagara Navigation Company fleet consists of four large, fast, steel observation steamers, making, at the height of the season, eight round trips daily (Sunday excepted), between Lewis­ ton, N. Y., and Toronto, Ont., via the lower N iagara River and Lake Ontario, calling at Queenston, Ont., and Niagara-on-the-Lake. The trip occupies about two hours and a half. This route form s not only a popular trip fo r tourists, but is also an old-established and im portant connecting link for regular travel between Buffalo, N iagara Falls, and Toronto. Trains of the New Y ork Central Rail­ road run from Buffalo and N iagara Falls to Lewiston, N. Y., connecting with all steamers. Electric cars of the w orld-fam ed N iagara Gorge Railway ( "T he Great Gorge R oute" ) maintain a fifteen-minute service between N ia­ g a ra Falls and Lewiston. This summertime page, recalling the days of grand steamboat excursions on Lake Ontario, is cobbled together from the 1910 brochure of the Niagara Na­ vigation Company. Four beautiful steamers making eight trips per day between Toronto and the ports of the lower Niagara River! Let's buy our tickets and sail away, forgetting all of our cares and worries. Should it ever be so... * * * * * * * *

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